Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Chatham mechanic jailed for attempting to smuggle heroin through Channel Tunnel: "mechanic has been jailed for six years after admitting trying to smuggle heroin worth £100,000 through the Channel Tunnel.
Vince Richard Hubbard, of Haig Avenue, Chatham, was arrested by UK Border Agency officers in Coquelles, France, in January.
The 47-year-old claimed he had only been on a day trip to Belgium to buy tobacco.
But officers searched the Toyota Rav 4 he was driving and found two-and-a-half kilos of the drug in four brown-taped packages in the roof lining of the car."